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Long voyage home

Marthe Koning & Gerben Vaillant
Wed 19 May and Thu 20 May

A physical and poetic performance about coming home to a precarious reality

Gerben Vaillant, the discovery of last season at CAMPO, is back! This time, he joins forces with the impressive Marthe Koning.

 

This performance is like any other performance, except that somewhere the stuff it is made of is beginning to decompose. That is where the makers begin.

What if instability turns out to be the very thing that gives us the greatest sense of stability? In Long Voyage Home, we enter a world that has let go of its fixed form and travel through this unstable reality. Marthe Koning and Gerben Vaillant create a fluid world that is as unpredictable as the world around them. Dance, song and performance shed their boundaries, while the falling theater curtains open up an increasingly amorphous world. There are no promises, there are no premises, there is no certainty.

Long Voyage Home is a performance that has let go of the ambition to be understood.

 

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Marthe Koning (1996) is a performer, singer and composer. Her work is characterised by a constant search for new forms of expression and interdisciplinary collaboration, with her voice serving as a candid and fearless foundation. In 2023, she presented her solo performance What Pessoa taught me with detheatermaker. Etcetera wrote: “A brave and unapologetic ode to freedom within.” She has created several productions with Collectief King Sisters and is a performer with MOVEDBYMATTER, Muziektheater Transparant and Studio Vacuüm. 

Gerben Vaillant (1994) is an interdisciplinary performance maker. He works with text, dance, imagery, philosophy, trash–it can always become anything, but is often atmospheric and sometimes confusing in nature. In recent years, Vaillant has developed work at Frascati Productions: Swimming Studies (2022), A Sense of an Ending (2023), on almost every page (2024) and On Smoke and Airconditioning. On almost every page was selected for the VSCD Mime / Performance Prize at the Dutch Theatre Festival and was performed in Belgium at Love at First Sight and in a sold out CAMPO. Het Parool wrote that it is “everything you could hope for from theatre, and then a little bit more.”

 

Credits

concept & performance Marthe Koning & Gerben Vaillant sound design Marthe Koning & Seppe Vande Veire scenography & costume design Caz Egelie text Gerben Vaillant dramaturgy & final direction Kim Snauwaert performance coach Jessie L’Herminez scenography & costume design assistant Maya Berkhof lighting design Kato Stevens technical crew Kato Stevens & Kris Depuydt production manager Zita de Vos production detheatermaker co-production Frascati & Stichting King Sisters in collaboration with workspacebrussels & Monty with thanks to the Flemish Government

 

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